Downer: Hybrid office workers only do three hours of real work daily
Brandon Downer · I Discovered the Highest Paying Jobs in 2024 · Jul 2, 2024 · at 31:17
Brandon Downer, co-founder of window-cleaning franchisor Pink's, discusses the underutilization and performative busywork common among corporate office workers.
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“People that are just working in an office, and they have, like, they're probably working from home three days a week, and they are not being fully used. Like, they're working for really three hours a day, but they have to stretch out their work to make it an eight-hour day to make it look like to their boss that they're working. They gotta appear online on Slack, so they're constantly moving their mouse and all that.”
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